Headington Campus - Gipsy Lane
Oxford Brookes University - Headington Campus, Oxford, Oxford OX3
UK
Magazines act as the ultimate social barometer, cataloguing our insecurities, dreams and manners. Confidence comes in many guises – beauty, power, sex, body, social standing – which depend as much on social hierarchy as the time period it lives in. Intertwined with fashion, it is as much of a social barometer of society as the magazines in which it is illustrated.
Faith, hope, gender and societal pressures help shape our relationship with confidence – a relationship often mediated by magazines for commercial and editorial gain. But where does confidence come from? And who grants it?
This lecture aims to unravel some of these relationships, hierarchies and codes.
About the Speaker
Leander Reeves
LEANDER REEVES, SENIOR LECTURER IN PUBLISHING
Leander Reeves is a graduate of Oxford Brookes with an MA in Electronic Media. Her principal teaching and research interests are in magazine publishing.
Leander is co-organiser for the 2015 international conference, Consuming/Culture: Women and Girls in Print and Pixels.